Comment by stefanos82
1 year ago
Finally! Congrats to Andreas and the dev team that made it happen!
I hope a portion of the funds to go in Jakt's [1] development as it's a very promising language that looks both clean and elegant AND it's a memory-safe systems programming language.
I highly doubt it, Jakt is a hobby project that is basically dead. Writing a web browser is enough work already but also building your own language on top of that seems... costly.
Using proven and widely used technologies in a very hostile environment seems like a better choice than rolling your own language which will need a ton of scrutiny to be considered serious.
I think jakt it's far from dead; the last commit took place 4 days ago and to be honest with you, since I have it locally as a fork, I fetch updates daily and I can see they work on it quite extensively, almost on a daily basis sometimes, which is very impressive.
Looks like they're evaluating several alternatives to C++ but haven't chosen one yet:
"We are actively evaluating a number of alternatives [to C++] and will be adding a mature successor language to the project in the near future. This process is already quite far along, and prototypes exist in multiple languages."